JEFFERSON ES

JEFFERSON ES is an elementary-level community of low-enrollment scale in Pryor, Oklahoma, one of the schools within PRYOR, caters to 274 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 366 students each, so JEFFERSON ES sits 25% below that benchmark.

Within PRYOR, which oversees 5 schools and 2,910 students, JEFFERSON ES is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, JEFFERSON ES shows that 39% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 28% multiracial, 26% Native American, 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JEFFERSON ES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.2%, the actual is 35.2%, a residual of +0.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, Mayes County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,305 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Mayes County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,860 students), of which JEFFERSON ES is one.

PRYOR HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JEFFERSON ES ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 26.5%.

JEFFERSON ES operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JEFFERSON ES has edged down 8%, going from 298 students in 2018 to 274 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 46% to 39% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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